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Emergency crews responded to nearly 100 weather-related accidents in the Amarillo area Tuesday after overnight and morning snowfall, and experts said the winter weather isn’t going away.

Local National Weather Service meteorologists predicted a high temperature of 18 degrees today for the city, with a predicted wind chill of minus 20 degrees overnight and a 40 percent chance of snow in the evening.

If the Amarillo district needs help, TxDOT personnel from neighboring districts will come to aid.

“If we need to draw on that mechanism, it is set up and ready to go,” Braun said. “However, I don’t anticipate that happening this week at all.”

Xcel Energy spokesman Wes Reeves said company personnel have been monitoring area substations to check for high levels of electricity usage.

Overloads that cause outages often result from households using electric air conditioners during the summer simultaneously, but residents cranking their heaters can have them same effect.

Xcel personnel are not anticipating many problems with power lines due to low wind levels, but Reeves said they will continue to monitor weather reports.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers were called out to about 56 weather-related accidents Tuesday, Senior Trooper Chris Ray said. At least one person was injured when a white Ford pickup rolled about off of East Interstate 40 near the U.S. Highway 287 split about 7 a.m., Ray said. The accident didn’t affect traffic.

Amarillo police reported 40 accident calls from 3 a.m. to noon Tuesday. No serious injuries were reported. Cpl. Jerry Neufeld and Sgt. Brent Barbee said the number and severity of accidents were far from the worst they’d seen in wintry conditions. Most of the accidents occurred during the morning commute.

Snow started falling about 3 a.m. Tuesday, meteorologists said.

The National Weather Service office in Amarillo recorded 1.4 inches of snow Tuesday, meteorologist Lance Goehring said.